The Polymers and Coatings Program at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, will offer a Polymers and Coatings Introductory Short Course during the week of February 7-11, 2011.
The National Coil Coating Association (NCCA) is now offering its “Key to the Toolbox” pocket guide, a free publication designed to unlock the NCCA’s array of online educational resources.
The Hydraulic Institute has updated the 2000 edition of the ANSI/HI standard on sealless centrifugal pumps and published ANSIHI 5.1-5.6 – 2010 Sealless Rotodynamic Pumps for Nomenclature, Definitions, Application, Operation and Test.
A new market research report by Future Markets Inc. provides a detailed discussion of the global nanocomposites market. Global revenues for polymeric nanocomposites were approximately $390 million in 2009.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced new criteria to help companies and other groups, such as states and environmental organizations, identify safer chemicals.
A report by Lux Research, titled “Nanotech’s Answer Key to the Energy Problem,” quantifies the potential impact that six nanotechnology innovations could have on energy consumption in three representative regions: the United States, Germany and Japan.
A research team from the UMass Amherst Chemical Engineering department reports in the November 26 issue of Science that it has developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks, including benzene, toluene, xylenes and olefins, from pyrolytic bio-oils, the cheapest liquid fuels available today derived from biomass.
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